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Sex work is legal in Bangladesh. So is child marriage. Now in an exclusive investigation, The Telegraph can reveal the two have become intrinsically linked

There’s a circular bruise blossoming on the right hand side of 19-year-old Rupa Begum’s cheek, and she’s working hard to cover it. Gently, she smears pale concealer over her face with her fingertips and blends it into the skin.

She checks her reflection in a small turquoise mirror, and breaks into a smile. “Now nobody can tell anything happened,” she says, sitting back on her faded floral bedspread. “When the next customer comes, he doesn’t want to see what the last one did to me.”

It’s 9.30am on a Tuesday morning, and outside Rupa’s windowless...

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